Moving back to Dubai after 22 years has been an experience! Back then we didn't have the internet or blogs. Now we do I can jot down my thoughts on daily life, things we come up against, things we enjoy, the multi-national society, the laws, the weather...plus other things in general which catch my attention.

Monday, December 10, 2007

Our new business daily

There were only two things wrong with Emirates Today. The content and the layout.

Now it's gone to the newspaper graveyard, to be replaced by a business daily.

Sorry guys, it's all wrong, it just doesn't look the part. Here's the masthead:

A serious daily reporting on business from an international business centre and it looks like that?

And "Emirates Business 24/7"? Who came up with that doozy?

You can picture the meeting can't you.

Boss: 'A business daily, covering the Emirates. What shall we call it?'

Serf 1: 'How about 'Emirates Business? Short, descriptive, to the point. Says what it is.'

Serf 2: 'I know! I know! 'Emirates Business 24/7!

Today's business is obsessed with using buzz words - buzzing - and Serf 1 won't get on. Serf 2 will be promoted to In-Charge.

Mind you, if I'd been there I'd've won the sucking-up-to-the-boss battle. I'd have shown them what buzzing is all about. I'd have said we need an exclamation mark after 24/7!

About Me

We lived in Dubai from 1977 to 1984, visited on a couple of holidays, then moved back again in 2005. We came because we wanted to watch the incredible development as it happened and we moved back to Oz in 2011.
I now blog on Life in Oz and the link is on my last post here.
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